Pittsburgh-headquartered firm Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney can continue to represent a vending machine business client in an employment contract dispute with the business’ former president, a Pennsylvania Superior Court panel decided on Friday, despite contentions by the defendant that the firm has a conflict of interest.

The Sept. 30 appellate decision comes 10 months after a trial court denied a motion by defendant Alan Simons, the former president of RDS Vending, to disqualify Buchanan from representing his former RDS business partner John Brown in a dispute over Simons’ employment contract from 2019.